The English ConstitutionH. S. King & Company, 1872 - 291 páginas A classic study of the British constitution, paying special attention to how Parliament and the monarchy work. The author frequently draws comparisons with the American Constitution, being generally critical of the American system of government. |
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... looks at the living reality will wonder at the contrast to the paper description . He will see in the life much which is not in the books ; and he will not find in the rough practice many refinements of the literary theory . It was ...
... looks at the living reality will wonder at the contrast to the paper description . He will see in the life much which is not in the books ; and he will not find in the rough practice many refinements of the literary theory . It was ...
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... otherwise . The most strange fact , though the most certain in nature , is the unequal development of the human race . If we look back to the early ages of mankind , such as we seem in the faint distance to see them - if THE CABINET . 5.
... otherwise . The most strange fact , though the most certain in nature , is the unequal development of the human race . If we look back to the early ages of mankind , such as we seem in the faint distance to see them - if THE CABINET . 5.
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... the society in question chances to contain . It is , what Washington and Hamilton strove to create , an electoral college of the picked men of the nation . The best mode of appreciating its advantages is to look THE CABINET . 25.
... the society in question chances to contain . It is , what Washington and Hamilton strove to create , an electoral college of the picked men of the nation . The best mode of appreciating its advantages is to look THE CABINET . 25.
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Walter Bagehot. The best mode of appreciating its advantages is to look at the alternative . The competing constituency is the nation itself , and this is , according to theory and ex- perience , in all but the rarest cases , a bad ...
Walter Bagehot. The best mode of appreciating its advantages is to look at the alternative . The competing constituency is the nation itself , and this is , according to theory and ex- perience , in all but the rarest cases , a bad ...
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... look at a country in which the two have within a comparatively short space of years succeeded each other . " The political condition , " says Mr. Grote , " which Grecian legend everywhere presents to us , is in its prin- cipal features ...
... look at a country in which the two have within a comparatively short space of years succeeded each other . " The political condition , " says Mr. Grote , " which Grecian legend everywhere presents to us , is in its prin- cipal features ...
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